magic eye doctor

Chapter 895 Sneak
Classmate Le Xiao is most interested in pottery of various ethnic groups in Ethiopia. He went shopping to find some unique pottery. Due to the geographical environment in Ethiopia, the soil is fine and the pottery is particularly strong. Even if it looks rough, it is rare to have one. Pieces have trachoma.

Undoubtedly, such ceramics are a good tool for holding medicines she is looking for. Whether it is ointments or concoctions, it is better to store them in pottery than in containers made of gold or silver, unless special materials must be used. The special items loaded in the finished product, generally speaking, pottery and stone containers are universal containers. After all, the ancestors of human beings used stone tools and pottery at first, and jade containers are also stone tools.

In order to find more things, Le Yun went to a store on the way to the market to buy a luggage bag with wheels that can be used as a suitcase, and then rushed to the trading market to search for treasures.

It is said to be a market, but it is actually an open-air trading point with reddish-brown soil exposed. The address is in a corner near Chengxiao. Most of the stalls selling goods are villagers from the countryside of Chengxiao, and some are residents of Chengxiao. The stalls are full of items. There are woven products, pottery products for daily use, fruits, cattle and sheep, etc. Everyone is doing small business to exchange some money for daily necessities.

It was a little late when she arrived, and she missed the busiest time of the market, but the people who set up the stalls did not disperse. There were local ethnic groups and a small number of tourists experiencing the local customs.

In Tigray Prefecture, there are mostly Amhara and Tigray tribes, and there are few other tribes. Therefore, there are no naked women, naked men, or colorfully painted tribal men and women in the trading market.

Every item in the trading market is bid by the seller casually. The price of each stall is different. Maybe it is one birr here, and it may be two birr at the next stall. If you don’t want to waste money, you can bargain.

Xiao Le, who has changed her appearance, has a skin close to that of an Ethiopian. Unfortunately, because she does not know Amharic, she still cannot pretend to be a local. However, no one will think of her as an Asian. They will only think she is a European and American. .

I pretended to be Le Yun of the European and American family, and dragged a luggage bag with wheels to go shopping and buy pottery with great interest. Because I didn’t understand the local language, it was difficult to bargain. The girl and the little boy talked to the children at the women's stall selling groceries, and found that the two children understood English. Mimi smiled and gave the children a European English story, a writing notebook and a lead. Ask them to teach them Amharic.

The manufacturing industry in Ethiopia is weak, printed matter mainly depends on imports, and paper books are very expensive. The two children were very happy to receive small gifts and taught Amharic to foreign friends. Their mother also assisted the children in teaching when there was no business.

Le Yun learns from the locals, no matter whether the ground is mud or dust, she sits on the ground and takes out the English-Amharic comparison book she bought to ask for advice, so as to remember the pronunciation of each word. Her learning ability is very good. , teach it once and remember all of them, study for half an hour, learn to ask the price in Amharic, eat, drink, stay, walk, etc. The simplest sentences
She had a lot of fun learning, mother and son were having fun teaching, and the small stall owners next to them would occasionally join in the fun and teach a few words. Some children had nothing to do and sat around together, chattering like sparrows in a meeting. It was so lively that it attracted them again. Tourists came to take pictures, and then attracted a European German man who was teaching there. The man knew Amharic. He probably felt that the teaching of children was not very professional, so he was enthusiastic about being a free teacher.

After learning the language for two hours, Le Yun immediately put it to use. She picked a few items from the women’s stall, bought a few catties of coffee beans from the coffee bean stall next door, and negotiated with them in Amharic. After more than ten minutes, the business was negotiated, she couldn't help but smile, and the stall owners also smiled shyly.

The German gentleman gave the thumbs up again and again, and when the girl paid the money, he enthusiastically accompanied the girl shopping and taught her the official language of Ethiopia. In addition to shopping and haggling, most of the exchanges were talking about the Oktoberfest in country D, and the country F. red wine and truffles.

It has to be said that Mr. Germany is also a foodie. Therefore, Le Yun talked with him very speculatively. Walking along the street from one end to the other, there is almost nothing to buy. In order to thank Mr. Germany, I invited him to a coffee shop for coffee. , chatted for more than an hour, and parted ways.

Separated from the German gentleman who met by chance, Le Yun went shopping again, shopping in characteristic handicraft stores, buying a variety of clay pots, pots, and ceramic coffee cups, and bought four handmade coffee cups in a specialty store. The camels made of camels, the camels are carrying things, carrying boxes, carpets and other belongings on their backs, and they are also full of cute small jars, jars and small objects used as baskets.

There are too many things to fit in the luggage bag, so I will buy another bag for camel handicrafts, move some things to a safe corner and move them into the space, and leave some to drag and continue shopping until noon. After eating, I went to a motorcycle shop to buy a motorcycle when I was full. I bought a Huaxia brand Lifan motorcycle, and it still had a brand name.

Motorcycles, helmets, gasoline, and a complete set cost hundreds of dollars.

Xiao Le, who supported his own national brand car, didn’t care about money. He tied the luggage bag to the back seat, went to buy drinking water and necessities, went shopping, bought everything, and rode a motorcycle to his destination Set off.

Going out of the city along the highway is not the way to Danakil and the active volcano at first, but the road to the border city near the border with Ecuador, so no matter what kind of car you drive on the road, no one can I don't know where I'm going, and it's even harder to judge whether it's a traveler or a local on a motorcycle.

Le Yun just took advantage of a small loophole and ran on the road with a motorcycle. After running for a while, he turned to the road to the Danakil depression, and was guarded by Ethiopian guards at a short distance. To go to the small village that must pass through the volcanic depression, park in a safe place, throw the car in the space, and walk around the small village on foot.

The place guarded by Ethiopian government soldiers is a must for a road. The small village is located in the plain between the plateau mountains. If you want to detour, you have to go around the plateau mountains, which is very far away.

As an inheritor of traditional Chinese medicine who is either running in the mountains or thinking about going to the mountains, Le Xiao is not afraid of the high mountains and the deep pits. He wears a mask, packs lightly, and climbs from the side of the mountains on the plain. Climb the mountain, dig some plants by the way, and water some plants that are extremely short of water.

Of course, the water from the water shortage is watered. Due to excessive use of space well water, the recovery speed is very slow. It is necessary to save water. Although the water replaced from the water tank has little nutrients left, it is very important for Ethiopia. For the long-drought and rainless land in the north, a drop of rain is as expensive as oil.

In fact, Xiao Le did not climb very far, and twilight fell. She did not return to the space until she could not see the ground at all. First, she sorted out the things she bought in the city, and then took care of the medicinal plants and watered several flower beds. , Those new flower gardens have not seen water for many years, and the soil is still dry after being poured with well water for several days.

After finishing the work, I sat down and dealt with the thorns of the cactus. Some of the cacti were collected from Socotra Island, and some were collected from Ethiopia. There are many kinds of cactus in all parts of Ethiopia. People just use it as a free fruit tree, pick the fruit for some money, or eat some for themselves, without making full use of them reasonably.

There are many kinds of cacti, fan-shaped, spherical or rod-shaped cacti, cactus rods and the like are all species of the cactus family. Cactus has many functions, and African natives do not pay attention to it. Leyun does not waste resources. A large number of collections, Not only dig the seedlings of various varieties and plant them in flower pots, but also collect a large number of wild cactus palms and fruits, pick the thorns when you have time, pick out the thorns on the surface of the cactus, and put them in a large pot. The thorns are also medicinal materials. The palms are placed in a bamboo sieve or piled on the ground.

After a busy night, the next day dawned and went out to climb mountains and ridges. It took a whole day to climb a series of mountains, far beyond the village where the Ethiopian guards were stationed, and rest again.

On the third day, Le Yun decided to go to the active volcano in the depression. On the road, he heard the tremors from the caravan driving behind him, so he looked for a place to avoid it. After seven or eight minutes, he saw a group of station wagons passing by. A total of eleven off-road vehicles, carrying large and small bags of water, oil, and food, lined up to the depression.

Now, she was instantly happy, and rode her own motorcycle to follow far behind, saving herself from finding her way, keeping a distance of about two kilometers. She knew the team, but the team didn't know her.

In the middle of the morning, the road came to an end, and the rest was the transition section from the Huangsha Plateau to the volcanic lava landform. The so-called road is the road stepped on by the drivers of the tourist bus and the camel team, often swept by strong winds, and there is a long sandstorm. The sky and the sun are blocked out, and unfamiliar people can easily get lost.

On the barren land, there is little vegetation, and the sun is even hotter. There is also a lot of wind that day, and there are often gusts of wind and sandstorms.

Following the convoy on the desolate wild road, Le Yun slowed down the speed of the car, so as not to run too fast and get too close to the convoy and be discovered. She was hit by a gust of wind just after entering the desert, and the whole world was gray, so she simply stopped and waited. The gust stopped, and the whole person and car were covered with dust.

At the beginning, the visual range was not wide, and you walked and walked. When the sand and dust in the air slowly fell to the ground, the desert returned to its empty and desolate appearance, with an endless appearance.

The convoy had already gone for an unknown distance, Le Xiao was not in a hurry, followed the traces of the wheels until noon, put away the car again, walked alone, walked along the wasteland to a point where the traveling vehicles rested on the road, and then continued .

Passing through a wasteland of volcanic lava landforms, you enter the Danakil Desert, which is the real Danakil Depression, the most famous lava lake volcano in Ethiopia - Erta Ale Volcano, and the geothermal volcano that forms hydrochloric acid lake - Darakil Lore Volcano, and the huge salt pans of the Afar region are in the Danakil Desert.

The average daily temperature in the desert is 34 degrees Celsius, and the daytime temperature is as high as 50 degrees Celsius during hot days. The highest daytime temperature is as high as 70 degrees Celsius near the active volcano crater. It is the hottest place in the world and is called "the most inhospitable place to live". "Door of hell".

On the edge of the desert, far away from the volcano, it is impossible to see where it is. Without a guide and guide, it is easy to get lost in the desert. If there is not enough water and food, it will be a dead end.

Others may get lost, but Le Yun won't. Her nose is too sensitive. Even if she can't see the car marks on the ground, she can accurately find the volcano just by the slight volcanic smell in the air.

She is too far away from the volcano, so she doesn't have to worry about being discovered. She followed the traces left by the convoy in the desert, rode for a long time, collected a lot of desert soil while resting, and planted plants that like sandy soil in the space.

There are also sand hills and desert plants in the barbaric desert, which make the desert alive. Even though the weather conditions are so harsh, there are actually a small number of residents in the desert. They are the strong Afar people who dig salt for a living.

The off-road vehicle also needs to drive for several hours in the desert, and the motorcycle is slower. In the evening, Le Yun saw an active volcano emitting black smoke in the distance—the Erta Ale active volcano is an active volcano. The surging magma will form hot gas, and there will always be flames and smoke in the sky.

Seeing the outline of the volcano, she can no longer follow the traces of the convoy, and go around by herself to the dormitory opened by the travel agency, where there are guards sent by the government to protect tourists who come to watch the volcano group.

Take a long detour, near the active volcano, in order to prevent the sound of motorcycles from alerting the travel agency staff and guards, put away the car, walk to the volcano on foot, and collect plants while walking, even ordinary ones No shrubs or weeds were spared, and I collected some of each kind I saw.

The camp set up by the travel agency at the foot of the active volcano is very simple, with walls made of stones, no quilts, and simple beds. Tourists can put sleeping bags on the simple beds and sleep in the sleeping bags.

There is still a distance between the foot of the mountain and the top of the mountain. The tour guides and government guards will take the tourists from the camp to climb the volcano after 06:30. When the sky is dark, everyone uses flashlights or headlamps. It looks like a fire dragon from a distance. Walking towards the red mountain.

Le Yun was digging the roots of plants. It was dark before reaching the foot of the mountain. When she saw the climbing team from a distance, she rolled her eyes and ran wildly with her feet. She ran to the safest climbing path that the travel agency found out. I also climbed the mountain. In order to illuminate the road, I took a stick and tied a flashlight to move against the ground, so that I could see the road and prevent others from seeing the light.

The temperature of the volcano is so high and the environment is so harsh. However, there are still plants on the volcanic mountain. Those plants grow in the gaps of volcanic magma deposits. Even if the land is barren, they still persist and survive tenaciously. It is also shocking. , lamenting the tenacity and tenacity of life.

The mountain-climbing tourist team took a break every hour and climbed to the active crater for three and a half hours. They rested at the campsite near the active crater, and then they were accompanied by guides and guards to see the crater.

Le classmate is fast, not far from the tour group within half an hour, so he can only sit and wait for others to go far away before climbing up by himself, not far from the top of the mountain, detour quietly, and enter the space with the tourists on his back Meditate and prepare to go out and dig plants until the wee hours of the morning.

(End of this chapter)